Pavel Machek wrote:
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>> * Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri 2008-04-25 17:15:49, Mike Travis wrote:
>>>>   * Increase the limit of NR_CPUS to 4096 and introduce a boolean
>>>>     called "MAXSMP" which when set (e.g. "allyesconfig"), will set
>>>>     NR_CPUS = 4096 and NODES_SHIFT = 9 (512).
>>> Why is redundant option 'maxsmp' a good idea?
>> because this way randconfig can trigger it and can configure all the 
>> otherwise randconfig-invisible [or just plain unlikely] numerics and 
>> options up to their max.
>>
>> I found 2-3 "large box" bugs via that way already.
> 
> Should we improve randconfig to select numeric values when range is
> given, too?
> 								Pavel

Would not be a bad idea; preferrably with a logarithmic distribution.

	-hpa
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